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UN GATE / SDNY COURT, March 3 –  Inner City Press on 5 July 2018 was banned from entering the UN, two day after it was physically removed from conducting interviews outside meeting about the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres' $6.7 billion budget.

  Then Guterres' Department of Global Communication, run by Melissa Fleming, issued a letter banning Inner City Press from the UN - for life. With no due process, no right of appeal.  Guterres has put the UN in the US Press Freedom Tracker, here. Guterres' Spokesman Stephane Dujarric falsely promised on camera that he would be answering banned Inner City Press' questions - but see below.

     On March 3 before another lame briefing by Stephane "French Whine" Dujarric at which he promoted ex-Security chief Kevin Kennedy whose position on Guterres' censorship is not yet know, Inner City Press submitted yet more questions, including why it continues to be lawlessly banned from entering to ask questions in person. Inner City Press has asked:

March 3-1: On Honduras, on which you have refused all of Inner City Press' questions since October 2019, what now are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres after his meetings with JOH and your bragging about moneys paid on that today the SDNY has announced an arrest and that "  In or about 2013, FUENTES RAMIREZ paid at least approximately $25,000 to a high-ranking Honduran official referred to in the Complaint as “CC-4,” in exchange for protection from further interventions by law enforcement targeting FUENTES RAMIREZ and his drug trafficking activities.  Around the time of the bribe, during a series of meetings between FUENTES RAMIREZ, CC-4, and others, CC-4 expressed interest in access to FUENTES RAMIREZ’s cocaine laboratory because of its proximity to a major commercial shipping port, agreed to facilitate the use of Honduran armed forces personnel as security for FUENTES RAMIREZ’s drug trafficking activities, and instructed FUENTES RAMIREZ to report directly to Juan Antonio Hernandez Alvarado for subsequent drug trafficking activities"? 

March 3-2: On Cameroon, what now are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres on the new killings by the government in Babanki? And the disappearance / assassination of Ngarbuh whistleblower Mallam Danjuma? Immediately describe any and all assistance the UN requested and separately received from Mallam Danjuma, what protection if any the UN gave him, and what it will do now. 

March 3-3: On Coronvirus / COVID 19 and the UN system, immediately state if SG Guterres deems this UNESCO response, leaked to and published by Inner City Press which Guterres bans from the UN now 608 days, sufficient: ""UNESCO Alert  Date : 29/02/2020 13:38 IMPORTANT MESSAGE - CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK/EPIDEMIE DE CORONAVIRUS   Dear colleagues,  We have been informed late yesterday evening, 28th February, that a contractor who visited UNESCO Headquarters on Monday, 24th February, has tested positive for Covid-19.  At the time of the visit, the contractor displayed no symptoms, and therefore we are advised by the competent French medical authorities that there is very low risk to staff.    Nevertheless, on the instructions of the French medical authorities, as a precautionary measure, we have contacted the small number of staff who had contact with the contractor on Monday, to inform them that they must self-quarantine for 14 days.  None of the staff members concerned currently display any symptoms but of course their medical situation will need to be monitored closely in the coming days." 

March 3-4: AGAIN on CAR, which you refused to answer yesterday, now immediate confirm these PNGs, and state what each of the UN personnel did: 'The facts reported are deemed sufficiently serious by the Central African Authorities, who therefore request the departure of the persons concerned, and cited below, from Central African territory. A transfer, within one week is requested, at the risk of having their immunities lifted and of seeing them be brought before the Central African Justice for the acts of which they are accused The persons denounced are: - Mr. ZALKO BARS Dimitroff, Head of MINUSCA coordination office in Bangui; Mr. TORRES RAY, Director of Political Affairs of MINUSCA; - Mr. CARLOS José, Head of coordination for the 3rd arrondissement; - Mr. TORRES RAY, Director of Political Affairs of MINUSCA; - Mr. CARLOS José, Head of coordination for the 3rd arrondissement; - Mr. KEITA Mamady Rouge, Agent of MINUSCA seconded to the 3rd district. Please accept, Mr. Special Representative, the expression of my distinguished consideration. o apues Stra des Affan Ministère da Minister Sylvie BAIPO TEMON.'" 

March 3-5: On corruption and Angola, on which you refused to answer yesterday, what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres on the Luanda Leaks exposure of Isabel dos Santos of Angola, and as Inner City Press has repeatedly asked, what are his comments and action on the repeated retweeting of Isabel dos Santos' denials by his close staffer Aguinaldo Baptista? After, for example, exposure of the corrupt urban development project near Luanda for which some 3,000 families were driven from their homes to make way for the development? And now after The Portuguese bank EuroBic has announced it will end its business relationship with Africa's richest woman, Isabel dos Santos. 

March 3-6: Immediately describe the role of Angola and the dos Santos family in the campaign of Antonio Guterres to become UNSG. 

March 3-7: On UN sexual exploitation and abuse - alleged - as Inner City Press requested before 10 am on February 24, immediately provide all if-asked / further information immediately provide the if-asked information about the new sex abuse cases data dumped at 9:30 am on Feb 24, involving UN rape in DRC by Guatemala "peacekeeper," and abuse by Senegal in Haiti, and Gabon and Mauritania in CAR, etc and as Inner City Press asked in writing in 2019 without response, the if-asked information for the report of UN rape in Darfur data dumped to Conduct and Discipline website on the morning of January 17 and the "if asked" information about the two new cases of sexual exploitation in CAR by Cameroonian UN "Police" that were put online after 5 pm on December 30 (a day when you refused to answer 7 questions including on previous UN rapes), and the (Dec 19) rape case by a UN Volunteer in DRC in June 2019 - what nationality? What's been done for the victim(s)? and the Dec 9 sex abuse cases in CAR by Gabon, DRC and Morocco UN "peacekeepers, and the Dec g  about the Office of the Special Envoy for the Sahel, and the two more November 26, 3 pm cases of sexual exploitation in CAR by Cameroon troops in September 2019 (!)

March 3-8: On SG Guterres' Town Hall in Geneva, on which you refused Inner City Press' Dec 20 question, what is your summary of what SG Guterres said given that Inner City Press has now publishing more of it? Please explain SG Guterres' statement that interns should not (ever) be paid, and how this is not create unfair advantage for the most affluent?

March 3-9: As previously and repeated asked, where has UNSG Antonio Guterres been for the past week(s), and how much public money has he spent? Is he going directly to and from Pakistan? Previously from Addis? Or any stop overs? At what cost? Now, immediately disclose any and all costs to the UN including UN Security on the New York trip by Catarina Vaz Pinto Guterres on February 27 - March 1 (or longer).

March 3-10: On press freedom and China, what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres and separately USG Melissa Fleming on the new study by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China that Chinese authorities increasingly use the threat of expulsion and visa denial to retaliate and warn against critical foreign coverage; summon journalists to meetings with officials; and harass Chinese citizens who work for the foreign press.

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